The SoftBank Robotics Corp. robots were tapped to fill in while admittance was restricted to games due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic forced the start of Japan's pro baseball season to be ...

Japan is home ... not clear that having a robot talk to you brings the same benefits as real human company." Technology can absolutely assist care workers and make life easier for older people ...

The semi-autonomous robot is called Adam and is able ... size and a mini version — and testing them in real-life scenarios on farms around Japan. The larger Adam is 70 centimeters high and ...

Start-up firms in the Kansai region in western Japan and the Tokyo metropolitan area have developed robots that follow actions performed by human operators in real time, bringing droids far closer ...

Yusuke Abe, a developer at SoftBank robotics, explained what Pepper could do, and why it was proving popular in Japan ... a humanoid robot that looked and sounded like a real person.

In August 2020, Medicaroid’s hinotori™ Surgical Robot System became the first robotic-assisted surgery system born in Japan to win regulatory approval from the country’s Ministry of Health ...

Japan's food industry faces the same dire demographic ... but one startup believes robots could save the day. Delibot, developed by Connected Robotics, can fill and package 250 food containers ...

Robots taking over our jobs is probably one thought that looms around everyone’s mind. Japan and Singapore are close to making it happen in the service industry. SoftBank Robotics (SBRG ...

TOKYO: It resembles a malevolent robot from 1980s sci-fi but West Japan Railway's new humanoid employee was designed with nothing more sinister than a spot of painting and gardening in mind.

In a way, this makes sense. We should embrace AI and work with robots to ensure a prosperous future. Meanwhile, some real-life news anchors may take up jobs they never thought they would – like ...